That Record Got Me High Podcast

This week's guest, writer, director, producer, journalist and musician Gabriel Rotello, brings us the stunning debut studio album by Patti Smith, 'Horses'. Gabriel's latest book, 'The CBGB Conspiracy', is a gritty mystery novel set during the sweltering NYC summer of 1977, with Son of Sam on the prowl and the city rocked by the blackout. As both a musician who lived that scene and a longtime LGBTQ journalist, Gabriel's insight into this  foundational punk landmark of a record is not to be missed!
Songs discussed in this episode: My Generation (Who cover - Live at the Agora, Cleveland, OH 1976) - Patti Smith; All The Good Places - Gabriel Rotello; Easter - Patti Smith; Sonic Reducer - The Dead Boys; X Offender - Blondie; Judy Is A Punk - Ramones; Karn Evil 9 1st Impression Part 2 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer; No Feelings - Sex Pistols; Unknown - Patti Smith/Lenny Kaye - Max's Kansas City, Fall, 1973; Fire Engine (13th Floor Elevators cover) - Television (Live at CBGBs, 1975); Gloria, Because The Night, Redondo Beach, Birdland - Patti Smith; Holidays In The Sun - Sex Pistols; Birdland - Patti Smith; Personality Crisis - New York Dolls; Free Money, Kimberly - Patti Smith; Marquee Moon - Television; Break It Up, Land - Patti Smith; Teenage Crutch - The Shirts; 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be) - Jimi Hendrix; Elegie - Patti Smith; Redondo Beach (Patti Smith cover) - Morrissey (Live at Earls Court)

Returning guest and long-time friend of the show Tom Lawery brings us Sub Pop band (by way of the Carolinas) Band Of Horses and their second album, 2007s 'Cease To Begin'. Both evocative AND rocking, it's a record that delivers big riffs in a beautiful, indie-guitar pop package.
Songs discussed in this episode: Luther (Kendrick Lamar and SZA cover) - Iron & Wine and Ben Bridwell; Trinidad - Geese; The Funeral - Band Of Horses; One Big Holiday - My Morning Jacket; They'll Only Miss You When You Leave - Carissa's Wierd; Is There A Ghost, Ode to LRC - Band Of Horses - No One's Gonna Love You - CeeLo Green; No One's Gonna Love You, Detlef Schrempf, The General Specific - Band Of Horses; Tears Of Rage - The Band; Lamb On The Lam (In The City), Islands On The Coast - Band Of Horses; Goin' Against Your Mind - Built To Spill; Mississippi - Bob Dylan; Marry's Song - Band Of Horses; Seven Bridges Road (Live) - The Eagles; Act Together - Ron Wood; Act Together (Live, 2007), Cigarettes, Wedding Bands, Window Blues - Band Of Horses; When I Get Old - Descendents

Technically Jeff Beck's seventh solo album - but only the second to bear only his name on the front cover - 1975s 'Blow By Blow' became a million-selling top-5 album, and proved once and for all there was truly nothing Jeff Beck could not do with a plank of wood and six strings. This week's guest, Filmmaker/Musician Peter Spirer (Rugged Entertainment), joins Rob as they attempt to unpack this instrumental classic.
Songs discussed in this episode: Freeway Jam (Live, 1976) - Jeff Beck With The Jan Hammer Group; Devil's Road - Sacred Cowboys; Minor Swing - Django Reinhardt; Spanish Boots - Jeff Beck; Blues Jam - The Rolling Stones (with Jeff Beck); Da Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart; You Know What I Mean - Jeff Beck; She's A Woman - The Beatles; She's A Woman - Jeff Beck; Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith; Constipated Duck, Air Blower - Jeff Beck; Stroll On - The Yardbirds; Pink Moon - Nick Drake; Scatterbrain - Jeff Beck; Frame By Frame - King Crimson; Lookin' For Another Pure Love - Stevie Wonder; Cause We've Ended As Lovers - Jeff Beck; 'Round Midnight - Thelonious Monk; Thelonious, Freeway Jam, Freeway Jam (Live, 1976), Diamond Dust - Jeff Beck; Horrors - Hummingbird; The Lonely Ones - Z Toyz

His songs have been covered by HUNDREDS of bands over the years, and he's rightly been nicknamed the "Father of Rock and Roll". John Lennon may have said it best, "If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'."
This week's guest, New Orleans musician Smitti Supab (Captain Buckles), brings us 'The Great Twenty-Eight' by the late, great Chuck Berry.
"Hail, hail rock and roll!"
Songs discussed in this episode: School Days - The Beach Boys (Live, Knebworth 1980), Iron City House Rockers, Bobby Vee, Jan and Dean, AC/DC; Cringe, Hurry Up, Bus Station Blues - Captain Buckles; Johnny Be Goode, Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck Berry; Roll Over Beethoven - The Beatles; Too Much Monkey Business - Chuck Berry; Too Much Monkey Business - The Kinks; Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan; Havana Moon, School Days, Rock and Roll Music - Chuck Berry; Rock and Roll Music - The Beatles; Reelin' and Rockin', Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck Berry; Surfin' U.S.A. - The Beach Boys; Beautiful Delilah - Chuck Berry; Beautiful Delilah - The Kinks; Memphis Tennessee - Chuck Berry; Memphis Tennessee - John Lennon and Chuck Berry with Yoko Ono; Nadine, Maybellene, No Particular Place To Go - Chuck Berry; Raindrops on Mardi Gras - Captain Buckles

For this special BONUS episode, Audio Engineer, Producer, Teacher and lead singer of Indiana's Zero Boys, Paul Mahern, brings us some of his favorite Teenage Tragedy Songs. Also known as Splatter Platters, Death Discs...etc, this style of songs lamenting teenage death scenarios - often in melodramatic fashion - peaked in popularity in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s but still pack a twisted punch today. Let the teardrops fall!
Songs discussed in this episode: Last Kiss - Wayne Cochran (1961); Johnny Better Get - Zero Boys; Henry Lee - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Ft. PJ Harvey); Henry Lee - Dick Justice; New Rose - The Damned; Looking For A Kiss - New York Dolls; Chain Saw - Ramones; Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton; Telstar - The Tornados; Tribute To Buddy Holly - Mike Berry and the Outlaws; Ode To Billy Joe - Bobbie Gentry; Maxwell's Silver Hammer - The Beatles; Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People; Detroit Rock City - Kiss; Angie Baby - Helen Reddy; Rocket USA - Suicide; Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats; Come Back Jonee, Auto Modown - DEVO; Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols; The Water Was Red - Johnny Cymbal; Dead Man's Curve - Jan and Dean; Teen Angel - Mark Dinning; Leah - Roy Orbison; Warm Leatherette - Grace Jones; Warm Leatherette - The Normal; Timothy - The Buoys